EXPANDED SECOND EDITION WITH THREE ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS !!

TROUBADOURS OF THE APOCALYPSE: VOICES FROM THE NEOFOLK, INDUSTRIAL & NEOCLASSICAL UNDERGROUND is now available to order. The book is 150 pages in length and costs just 24 euros with free postage to anywhere in the world. The Paypal address is blackfrontpress@yahoo.co.uk and you can find more details below. Editor: Troy Southgate / Cover: Zbigniew Boguslawski

THE trumpets are sounding, the Apocalypse beckons and mighty empires find themselves on the edge of collapse. Accompanying the decline of civilisation are the prophets, the doom-sayers and those who seek to hasten the process. There is also a role for the poets, the artists and the musicians who align themselves with the Neofolk, Industrial and Neoclassical genres. Buried deep within our European subculture, its purveyors and protagonists do not simply reach for the proverbial fiddle as the flames begin to spread through the heart of Rome, but provide us with new insights into the causes of our demise and remind us of the cultural traces which – for better or worse – have made us who we are. Gathered together in this volume are some of the most popular names in the field and, in a series of fascinating biographical essays, each participant recalls their origins and musical development; their personal hopes and aspirations; the things in life that motivate and inspire them; and their plans for the future. This book will lead you through the classical and the romantic, the sinister and the enlightening, the tragic and the triumphant.

Contributors include Troy Southgate (H.E.R.R. / Seelenlicht / Xiphos) Gerhard Hallstatt (Allerseelen), Miklós Hoffer (H.E.R.R.), Raymond P (Von Thronstahl / The Days of the Trumpet Call), Richard Levy (Strength Through Joy / Ostara), Robert Taylor (Changes), Francesca Nicoli (Ataraxia), Grzegorz Siedlecki (Horologium), Riccardo Prencipe (Lupercalia / Corde Oblique), Carles Jiménez (Àrnica), Daniel Pablo (Àrnica), Christopher Walton (AbRAXAS / Endura / TenHornedBeast) and Kristian Olsson (Survival Unit).